In the sweltering heat, all I want to do is wear simple and loose clothing pieces. When its warm, I love to wear lighter colors and play around with carefree prints. Instead of going with a patterned or neutral crop top, I decided to meet the styles in the middle by choosing a white t-shirt with simple but adorable text. This way, there is still contrast, but nothing that will overpower the outfit. …
Molten Coral
Dress TBDress/ Bag Fossil/ Shoes Steve Madden
Happy birthday to my lovely mother! I wore this dress out to her birthday dinner in the beautiful downtown Palo Alto. I make multiple trips here every week but I definitely never get tired of it. The weather was so warm and perfect that I didn’t even need to wear a jacket with this light dress! (Thanks to TBDress for sending this!)
I paired some simple accessories with this, to put more emphasis on the pretty print of the dress. The flowers remind me of something that Georgia O’Keeffe would paint. In fact, I am pretty sure the flowers on this dress are poppies, and she painted vivid oriental and red poppies. I love how the bright coral is placed on a simple-cut white dress. It makes it super wearable and an instantly put together outfit.
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Piaoliang (Pretty) in Pink
Bag TBDress/ Dress Shanghai Boutique/ Shoes DAPHNE/ Bracelet Pandora
(Photography credits to Ed Tran Photography! Like his photography page to stay tuned with all his lovely shoots)
Last Shanghai September outfit post! I’m sure you’ve read your fill of Shanghai rom all my posts of the past month…. 😉 Until my next visit I guess!
This outfit is another style that might not be seen everywhere in America, but is definitely popular in Shanghai and other Asian cities! It is super girly, almost a spin off of “princess” style. I love light pinks, and this outfit is pink from head to toe!
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Shanghai Reads (Mian Mian, Wei Hui, Lisa See)
One of my favorite hobbies is reading books! A lot of people might not know this about me, but I grew up reading all kinds of different novels. In the past few years, I’ve done a lot more exploration of translated cultural novels. Some of my favorite authors are Haruki Murakami, Wei Hui, and Ruth Ozeki.
I always spend a lot of time browsing through bookstores in Shanghai. On second thought, visiting local bookstores is a constant motif through out my travels, because I think there is almost no better place to read a book about a specific place for the first time than the city itself! Shanghai, like many other asian cities has a lot of various “bookstores” in the residential neighborhoods. However, these are actually more of student bookstores- selling mainly textbooks, workbooks, and stationary. Most of the bigger bookstores can be found in shopping districts and the upper levels of malls.
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